When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning, or changes for the worse.

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

I am only me for practical purposes.